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Month: October 2015

Check out this new SMT-V videocast by PAIG co-chair Edward Klorman about multiple agency and the performance of Mozart’s chamber music.

Abstract: Comparisons between the string quartet and artful conversation have flourished since the genre’s birth. If a quartet performance resembles stylized social intercourse, each player may be understood to enact the role of an individual persona engaged in the discourse. This study introduces the concept of multiple agency, whereby musical events are interpreted through the actions and interactions of these individual personas. This analytical approach is demonstrated through the analysis of a passage from Mozart’s Quartet in G Major, K. 387. A more thorough exposition of multiple agency’s historical and conceptual underpinning appears in the author’s forthcoming monograph, Mozart’s Music of Friends.

A Tale of Two Recordings and Their Analytical Ramifications: Jane Bathori, Pierre Bernac, and Debussy’s “Colloque sentimental”Peter Kaminsky (University of Connecticut)

These papers were selected through a blind review process. PAIG wishes thank everyone who submitted a proposal, as well as our selection committee: Daniel Barolsky, Ryan McClelland, and Victoria Tzotzkova.

We’re pleased to present an online Pedagogy Resource for those teaching courses that relate analysis and performance. The Resource contains syllabi, course reading lists, lesson plans, assignments, and other materials representative of different kinds of courses taught at a range of institutions.

The Resource is sponsored by the Performance and Analysis Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory, and we hope it will serve a larger community. It is curated by Daphne Leong, assisted by Edward Klorman; Richard vonFoerster assisted in the early stages of the project.

We thank all who contributed materials. Additional materials, particularly any that represent approaches or items not represented in the Resource, are welcomed.